Save thumbnails cache for project panel thumbnail view

Please fix this now! The program becomes barely usable once you have a few hundred assets, and I'm in a project with 20,000!

I'm in Premiere Elements 14 in a project only 4 minutes long and every time I do ANYTHING all the thumbnails have to refresh. I thought there must be an easy fix, and find this problem has been around for at least 6 years! The problem is so distracting with so much visual clutter happening that I've found myself WAITING for it to stop so I can focus on my next task. OMG, Adobe,,,,I've paid Adobe $ since 1998 and will keep Photoshop, but your not fixing this is unforgivable.

Hi everyone
Could anyone tell me if it's happening with specific formats / codecs ? Are some codecs fast to generate the thumbnails and others slow ?

For example if you have .BRAW or REDRAW R3D files, are the thumbnail generated fast ? And then for others files for example H264 .mp4 files it is slow ?

If not, it would mean there' something wrong in general in Adobe Premiere Pro. If yes, then it is up to importers and we could improve this situation

I have the same issue working on a long documentary, using state of the art equipment with dedicated SSD's, and waiting ridiculous lengths of time for thumbnails to load. Major loss of productivity. Could be a deal breaker if not fixed.

This is a big issue...maxing out my 64 GB RAM everytime just to create some thumbnails. There must be a way to solve this - and please do it fast Adobe...this has been an issue for quite some time now. First I thought it was me or my machine, but its not - its PPro, thats so insanely slow to generate these simple thumbnails.

Just to give you an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbCvkeJvLv4

This is after clearing cache (and even deleting the cache folders) and after regenerating the cache-files again.

My specs are: I7-5930K processor, 32 gb of RAM, Geforce GTX 1060 6gb and I edit from a internal Samsung SSD 970 PRO 1TB M.2 drive (where also my cache directories are located...not ideal, but should be fast enough). Besides that I have the latest Premiere version, an up-to-date windows 10 and all of my hardware drivers up-to-date including the Nvidia studio drivers.

I even changed from a good HDD (wdc wd2003fzex-00z4sa0) to this SSD hoping it would improve the thumbnail generation and it helped a little bit. But I still think loading time is terrible.

Isn't it possible to generate ALL the thumbnails in one time? Preferably during project startup, media importing, or when the system is idle (and not doing anything anyway).

Sometimes I just give up (and postpone) editing because of the loading of the thumbnails in the media browser takes too long. Actually it doesn't take that long for the ones to load that are visible in the browser (Davinci Resolve still is much faster though), but when I scroll down or up to the ones that were not visible yet it starts to generate those. Why not all in one time so they are available whenever needed? Really frustrating. Fast thumbnail availability should be basic stuff for pro editing software (that you pay a lot of money for).

Well, I've got some time to kill while I wait for a few hundred DJI thumbnails to load. So... grabbing a coffee, chiming in on this thread. I really had some momentum going there. The creative part of my soul just died a little bit more. It will again later today when I have to load a few hundred GH5 thumbnails. Or if I dare close this bin and open it again later.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.

I have a very fast machine and very fast drives. They deliver, Premiere does not. I'd even use proxies as a (super lame) workaround if those didn't come with massive headaches. https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/33858397-proxy-workflow-interpret-footage?tracking_code=c8b7c81a0aa5d0c378f48c90d47d7e97

Come on Adobe, both FCPX and Resolve have sorted this, surely it can't be that hard...

Throwing my hat into the ring on this as well. Little things like this would be a huge help.